The MSN(tm) HomeAdvisor(tm) online real estate service, announced the creation of the HomeAdvisor Partners Center, designed to help real state agents and brokers better promote their presence online and maximize their affiliation with HomeAdvisor. The center is available to the entire real estate industry, both current and potential listing providers, beginning today.

The Partners Center is loaded with marketing tools, fact sheets and other promotional materials to help real estate agents and brokers increase their exposure and generate additional revenue through HomeAdvisor. It also includes extensive educational content and informative Q&As for real estate agents, brokers and multiple listing services (MLSs) that want to learn more about putting their inventory of home listings on HomeAdvisor for free.

"These new features are designed to provide even more support to our partners in the real estate industry," said Ian Morris, group product manager for MSN HomeAdvisor at Microsoft Corp. "By giving agents the tools they need to promote their listings online, we're furthering our commitment to making them more successful by harnessing the power of the Internet."

Real estate agents and brokers who helped HomeAdvisor identify the right mix of materials for the Partners Center are excited about the opportunities and resources included there.

"These are powerful industry tools that HomeAdvisor has gathered together in one place," said Ken Schmidt, CEO of Coldwell Banker Schmidt Realtors in Traverse City, Mich. "The Partners Center will provide a number of valuable resources for real estate agents that will help them market and sell their homes via the Web. Microsoft is obviously committing a lot of resources to its real estate agent partners that will help real estate agents everywhere get more customers and generate more sales."

Published: February 17, 1999

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